July
16
/ 2022
Thuggees, from the Sanskrit word meaning “concealment”, were an organized gang of professional assassins – sometimes described as the world's first mafia – who operated from the 13th to the 19th centuries in India. Members of the fanatical religious group, who were infamous for their ritualistic assassinations carried out in the name of the Hindu Goddess Kali, were known as Thugs, a word that passed into the English language during the British occupation of India. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"97653","attributes":{"alt":"Colored drawing of two Thuggees pointing upwards to the sky to distract their victim, whilst another creeps up behind ready to strangle him. (Public domain)","class":"media-image","height":"484","style":"width: 610px; height: 484px;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] Colored drawing of two Thuggees pointing upwards to the sky to distract their victim, whilst another creeps
